Anyone want to play? Weekend 6.....

My 6....

1. Saturday I had Good Eggs delivery fruit and vegetables and fish and a few luxury treats such as candied blood orange peel and a box of Black Jet poptarts! Instacart delivered lactose free milk, some herbs and chips and salsa. So nice to have good food in the house. I also got my wash and fold laundry delivered. yay, clean undies!! (TMI!!)

2. Need ideas for the 1.5# bag of assorted eggplants, I was thinking of Bomb Bomb's Eggplant Rolatini, anyone remember that one? Looks so good!

3. Saturday after devouring the chips and salsa, I roasted 4 pounds of tomatoes using the slow roast method you all talked about before, early girls and cherry tomatoes. So beautiful and I managed to get the baking sheet out of the oven one handed without incident.

4. Bought fresh sardines for Saturday dinner but was too tired, so I'm having them tonight. I had a poptart for dinner instead, with fresh raspberry filling.

5. Sunday lunch, my plans to see 100 Foot Journey got cancelled when my friend's car ended up with a broken window, she spent the whole day getting it fixed, so I made a lovely court bouillon and poached a large piece of salmon for lunch, and roasted some red potatoes with lots of onion, parsley and fresh sage, and garlic, and I did not have an OAS reaction and was so happy. I used up the foie fat from a terrine I bought ages ago and that was frozen and wow. Best lunch ever.

6. My friend came over for dinner instead and I used a jar of fresh kraut and sauteed it with batons of my own cured bacon, lots of onions and that was amazing. The hazelnutty fat from the bacon was perfect with the kraut. I browned 4505 Meats cheddar brats and served them over the kraut, had bacon cheddar biscuits and padron chiles cooked in olive oil and Maldon salt. We feasted and it was so fun, her son is almost 10 and loves hot things so it was a race to find a hot padron. We all liked the new Magic Curry Kart curry ketchup and chile hot sauces I received from a kickstarter, and local pickled spicy green beans filled in the edges. For dessert - when you are almost 10 dessert is mandatory - we had the rest of the poptarts - raspberry, apricot and strawberry. The leftover sausage and kraut went with them for his first day of school bento lunch and a jalapeno poptart, my little gift to him for being in 5th grade. I love being an Auntie to my friend's kids.

We've decided Sundays are hard, because I'm usually alone having no family, and she's either with or without her child so we are going to have Sunday dinners together whenever we can, and if her kid is going back to his dad's we will have a grand Sunday lunch. This makes me very happy, and them too. Framily!!! I'm feeling much cheerier having healed up a bit from the injury of a week ago, and having money for groceries and transportation. So tonight sardines and something with eggplant! and I need to cook some chard and quinoa for work breakfasts.

 
Thanks Ang. After reading some reviews that the tart was watery I was starting to doubt

if my tomatoes were meaty enough. Realllly don't want to go *buy* plum tomatoes when I have all these others, lol.

 
Oh my, that sounds rich and delicious. And others in that tomato thread sound good too. We'll

probably be getting tomatoes well into late October/early November so there'll be plenty of time to try a few new recipes.

You'll find Traca's recipe at the link in Ang's post (#4 of this thread). smileys/smile.gif

 
miso glaze

I used the recipe from Cooks Country for the Salisbury steak.

The miso glaze is adapted from a recipe by Martha Rose Shulman. I roasted the eggplant slices on a sheet pan. When they were done I brushed on the glaze and broiled until it was bubbly. I used red miso because that's what I had. The original recipe calls for white or yellow.

Miso Glaze
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon mirin
1 tablespoon sake or shiaoxing wine
2 tablespoons miso
1 tablespoon sugar

To make the glaze, combine the mirin and sake in the smallest saucepan you have and bring to a boil over high heat. Boil 20 seconds, taking care not to boil off much of the liquid, then turn the heat to low and stir in the miso and the sugar. Whisk over medium-low heat without letting the mixture boil, until the sugar has dissolved. Remove from the heat and whisk in the sesame oil.

 
Pat, can you dry the tomatoes in the oven a bit? I've done that before adding them to the tart.

 
My Six

1. Drove all the way to Silverthorne, CO with hubby. We both love to drive, so no one gets too tired.

2. Had great sushi in a small town called Frisco, a small place called Kemosabe

3. Had lunch at Vail, simple stuff, a salmon perfectly cooked over a bed of spring greens and a lemony vinaigrette. Simple but perfect.

4. Played golf twice on a gorgeous setting, two golf courses in the middle of amazing mountains

5. Walked for at least one hour each day around Lake Dillon, as running was impossible, we both got too short of breath due to the altitude

6. Drove all the way back, arriving before sunset last night.... Great trip, could not have been any better!

 
Well, it is Co. after all. :0) Seriously though, did you watch The Lone Ranger

in Brazil growing up?

 
Yes, I did, with my Dad.... smileys/smile.gif

I do not remember the Kemosabe reference, who knows what that got translated to.... Or maybe it was there, but it's been so long, I cannot tell for sure

 
My weekend six

1. I had a mouse in one (ONE!) of my cabinets during summer (while I was away on vacation). We can't find it, and it hasn't ended up in any of our traps but I did get to desinfect my kitcken (with chlorine) during the weekend. Phew.

2. I have fallen in love with no knead bread. I made a loaf on Saturdau.
Then we ate it.
I made another loaf on Sunday.
We also eat that one. (Slowly pulling a paper bag over my head...)

3. Me and hubby made home made pizza on Saturday. We always make home made pizza on Saturdays. One pizza for me, one for hubby, and one small one for the dogs to share. That's normal, right? smileys/bigsmile.gif

4. The woods are full of ripe blueberries. I picked some on Sunday and we made a Blueberry Eaton Mess-dessert. It tasted very good, even though we were already quite full from all the bread and pizza.

5. I also got to pick some chantarelles. Fortunately, I live so close to the woods I can just walk out the door and be in blueberry and chantarelle heaven after just a few minutes walk. What's not to like about that?

6. *gross alert*
DH's very good friend had a bird crashing into one of his windows this weekend. By the time he got outside, the bird was stone dead. He was going to bury it in the garden, but then he saw that it was a dove, and thought "Hmmmm...."
Long story short: He served it with mashed potatoes and a red wine gravy.
(I haven't wrapped my head around this incident yet. I'm not sure if I'm more fascinated or disguisted with the whole thing). Apparently, it was a very delicious meal. To each his own, I guess.

 
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